Korea is to develop its first national centre of excellence for the development and validation of alternatives to animal testing, which will dramatically improve the country's ability to implement cutting-edge science.

As the European Union prepared to finally ban the sale of newly animal-tested cosmetics on 11 March 2013 LUSH & Humane Society International sent an open letter to the global cosmetics industry calling on it to abandon animal testing once and for all.

HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Director, Troy Seidle, recently visited Korea for an intensive series of governmental and corporate meetings and public awareness events aimed at building support for legislation to ban the use of animals for cosmetic testing.

Humane Society International, on behalf of our partners in the global Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end cosmetics animal testing, cautiously welcomed the enactment of a new law banning the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in Israel.

Choose Cruelty Free, Humane Research Australia and Humane Society International are calling on the Australian Government to follow the lead of the European Union in introducing legislation ensuring that no cosmetic shall be imported into, sold or manufactured in Australia if the final product or its ingredients have been tested on animals.

HSI received £40,000 for being selected to win in the lobbying category for leadership of a successful two-year campaign that dramatically reduced animal-testing requirements under Europe’s new regulations for non-food pesticides.

HSI has issued an urgent call for the European Commission to revise information requirements prescribed under its REACH chemicals law to substantially reduce animal testing while maintaining the same high level of regulatory scrutiny.

The Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO), a national collective of animal protection organisations in India, has become a formal partner of HSI's Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics in India.

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), an economic alliance of 34 industrialized countries, has adopted a new validated non-animal test method that can be used to asses chemicals for severe eye irritation and corrosion instead of subjecting rabbits to having chemicals dripped in their eyes.

Three out of four women in the United States consider it important that the cosmetics products they buy are labeled “cruelty-free,” and would buy a cruelty-free product in preference to one without a cruelty-free label.

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